Someone will be along shortly suggesting a Supercap with or without DR. And they may not be wrong, but it would be a tricky conversation for me to have with my wife.
If it were me, I’d try it with an Olive HiCap, not least because I have a serviced spare.
Which, by coincidence, is what I use for my Headline 2. One teeny tiny box…sitting next to a very large PSU!
OTOH, I’ve been playing around with my olive Headline on the end an RPi streamer, which may well end up in the lounge…this Headline is powered by a spare NAPSC.
Of course the Hicap has an obvious advantage over the NAPSC…it’s got an ON/OFF switch!
I look forward to trying this out, had been looking for a while on EBay for one and had missed out on 2 previous attempts. Its another Olive box which is good
I use Sennheiser HD650 headphones, which do quite nicely.
Compared with the Napsc, the Napsc2 benefits from a larger transformer, and the aluminium case is also better than the sheet metal case of the first Napsc. As well as a Napsc2, I have a Scap Black and a ScapDR. The 2 Scaps give better results than the Napsc for powering a Headline, but the Napsc2 gives satisfactory results in view of the pleasant format; the hicap plays a little better than the Napsc2, for me Headline is good with Napsc or naturally with Scap.
Agree, the Napsc2 is also a good upgrade for a Nac 82.
I’ve got a NAPSC2 on my 82, but can’t say I’ve noticed a great difference.
Looks better on the rack though.
ROFL!
Move it away as far as possible from the Nac 82,for even better sound.
It’s already about as far away (vertically) as the cable will reach.
I suppose I could try knocking up an extender cable…….
That’s fine
Plug it in away from the other equipment.
Not possible.
If I was still working, I’d run the NAPSC into our EMC test group for them to have a look at its emissions spectra for “radiated” & “conducted”.
(with suitable liquid compensation for taking up their lunch time, obviously ).
Unless Salisbury would let me use their very nice EMC chamber and some test gear!
Don’t worry,I have tested Napsc 2 ’s vs Napsc’s and the Napsc 2 is better.
But from a purely Elect. Eng. ** point of view, it would be interesting to compare the RE/CE between a NAPSC1 & NAPSC2.
**and Oi still are one……provided I keep giving ‘em the money in January!
Hooked the Headline to my 72 and sounds great. Hurt back at the weekend, so can’t crawl about and connect to my 82 yet.
Will look for a Slic so I can see how the sound changes with a HC.
Ninety quid from Audio Affair, Birmingham.
Yeah and then if I prefer the HC, I will need to factor in one of those too.
Maybe after Christmas or Santa might bring me one if I have been good this year.